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The Blackburn Plot: A Tale of Death and Deception in the Yellow Fever Era
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The Blackburn Plot: A Tale of Death and Deception in the Yellow Fever Era

This short story was taken from our archives. It first appeared in the December 1933 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally.  Marion Ainsworth had been disgraced, and discharged without notice by Vincent Candee, managing director of the St. George’s Hardware Company, Ltd., and alderman of St. George’s. Miss Ainsworth had been guilty of neither of willfully abusing her responsibility as book-keeper nor of innocently confusing her debits and credits even if she had been…

March 26, 2023

Written by: Nelson Hayes

LISTEN: World War II Story: Under Cover in France, 1943 – 1944
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LISTEN: World War II Story: Under Cover in France, 1943 – 1944

(Editorial Note: When John Hartley Watlington came home in 1944, it seemed as if he had returned from the dead, for he had been completely lost to his family for just under a year. He was extremely reserved concerning his…

November 13, 2022

Written by: John Hartley Watlington, R.C.A.F.

LISTEN: Cassie White World War I Memoir
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LISTEN: Cassie White World War I Memoir

On July 14th the Chief Nurse of Base Hospital 31 notified me that I was to go on detailed service. I had a half hour to get ready for the Ambulance that was to take 8 of us nurses, including…

November 11, 2022

Bermuda During the Second World War
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Bermuda During the Second World War

In September 1939, Dr. William (Bill) Cooke was just 11½ years old, living in a BELCO owned house on Cemetery Road. Years later he would write in his memoir that he saw “several policemen ride up to the BELCO Front…

November 11, 2022

Written by: Elizabeth Jones

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Short Story: George and the Haunted House

It's 1932 and a young seaman, posted with the Royal Navy in Dockyard, gets a night out in Hamilton with his mates. What could go wrong? This article was first published in the August 1932 issue of The Bermudian. It…

October 16, 2022

Written by: G. W. Mott

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LISTEN: A Boer on Burt’s Island and the Reflections of August Carl Schulenburg

Translated from Afrikaans by Dr. C.A.R. Schulenburg and edited by C.H. Benbow On the 8th of May 1901, thirty-two of us in Area 2 were surrounded by the British and taken prisoner. I had little with me, except my rifle…

October 9, 2022